Exhibition view "Moments in Between" 2022 at Museum Belvédère.
Aafke Ytsma (1988) is a Dutch artist currently based in Leipzig and Leeuwarden. She regularly undertakes projects at home and abroad. In 2014 she organised the project "Walk of Art" a solitary hike from the North of the Netherlands to Nice (FR) and painted the landscape on het way. She recently return from Japan where she stayed for half a year studying Mokuhanga and to collect impressions at Fukuoka farm.
Solo exhibitions
2022 Museum Belvédère AFSLAG BLV, Heerenveen, "Moments in Between"
2019 Melklokaal, Heerenveen, "Settings"
2017 Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, Art Noord, melklokaal stand
2014 Stânfries X, Leeuwarden, “Walk of Art”
Group exhibitions
2022 Hockdruckpartner, Leipzig (DE), "Seven year it(ch)"
2021 Melklokaal, Heerenveen, "Seven year it(ch)"
2021 Kunsthalle Hillsbach, Hillsbach (DE), "Elements"
2021 Hockdruckpartner, Leipzig (DE), Hochdruck Trinational "RevierWechsel"
2021 THALER Originalgrafik, Leipzig (DE), "Lange nicht Gesehen"
2020 Koninklijk Paleis, Amsterdam, "Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2020"
2020 Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig (DE), Let's print 3
2020 Melklokaal, Heerenveen, "Immuun"
2019 Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, "Art Noord", melklokaal stand
2019 Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, Presentatie jong talent
2019 Melklokaal, Heerenveen, Group exhibition "Lust(rum), 5 jaar melklokaal!"
2018 Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, "Art Noord" melklokaal stand
2018 Melklokaal, Heerenveen, "Friese milkshake"
2018 Kunstruimte H47, Leeuwarden, "Fanzine Genius van Leeuwarden"
2017 Municipal gallery Pafos (CY), “In Search of Common Myth”
2017 Melklokaal, Heerenveen “A portrait show”
2017 Museum Arnhem, Arnhem “In de geest van Pierre Janssen…"
2016 Kunstruimte Wagemans, Beetsterzwaag “The sitters”
2015 De Fabriek, Ried "Volledig 2.0"
2011 Inspectie voor de Gezondheidszorg, Zwolle
2011 Extrapool, Nijmegen, “Destillaat”
Grants & Awards
2023 Project Grant Artist, Mondriaan Fonds
2023 Contribution AIR, Dutch embassy of Japan
2022 Talentontwikkeling Gemeente Leeuwarden, work grant
2021 Winner open-call Corona poster design, VHDG & Fries Museum
2021 Japanese print material grant, Tijl fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
2021 Corona overbrugging, Mondriaan Fonds
2020 Stipendium, Stichting Reisma Van den Burg
2020 Nominated, Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst
2020 Project Grant Artist, Mondriaan Fonds
2019 Jury prize Art Noord, Museum Belvédère
2019 Talentontwikkeling Gemeente Leeuwarden, work grant
2014 Coba de Groot, partial grant for the exhibition "Walk of Art"
Residencies
2023 AIR Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory, Katsuyama, (JPN)
2020 Working period in Leipzig with support of Mondriaan Fonds (DE)
2018 Cultural capital of Europe 2018, Leeuwarden, "Fanzine Genius van Leeuwarden"
2017 Cultural capital of Europe 2017, Pafos (CY), “In Search of Common Myth”
Publications
2021 Hochdruck Trinational "RevierWechsel", catalogue Exhibition
2020 Let's print in Leipzig, catalogue Exhibition
2018 Fanzine: Genius van Leeuwarden, RISO-uitgave met 8 (inter)nationale kunstenaars
2014 Walk of Art, Catalogue, ISBN 978 9491276248
Education
2007-2011 ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten, Zwolle, the Netherlands
2021 Guest studentship at the painter Meisterklasse Annette Schröter
2021 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig (DE)